due to less posters, but a higher proportion of them were actually interesting discussions. There are still many interesting threads these days but they often get drowned out by the random pointless threads that either generate 0 or 1 replies or magically get about 400 replies which must be due to some in joke that I just don't get...

you can't really even say any group of people are the enemy. but you can probably say something about the superficiality of office culture and a (possibly necessary) reluctance to engage with a demanding topic for more than five seconds of one's precious working day

I just get tired of reading a thread and then out of nowhere comes a "You just don't get it 'cos you're a privileged white male. Penis = instant POWER and ignorance to how things Really are".
If they're making a genuine point then I fully support it but it just happens all the time and it gets really, really boring.

then by all means, tear them to shreds but it's often people posting something seemingly harmless who are getting their throats jumped down (this applies to everyone, not feminist posters exclusively), but this is kind of what DiS is like really, I suppose it's part of its 'charm'.

Like I said, I've phrased things lightly and still had people turn around and basically just say I'm an idiot/wrong etc just because they don't share the same opinion, not because I've phrased what I'm saying in a offensive way or anything.

pointing out that you could have put it a little more sensitively is not only fine but preferable, I'd say - you may have a different opinion but objection is nine-tenths how you dressed it up. if the opinion itself causes offence, then the counterargument should be made without undue opprobrium

I know I fuck up myself, always like to be steered right (usually by marckee, weirdly enough)

I WOULD agree that there's a lot of intolerance, especially of opinions, on DiS but I've already been there and it wasn't pretty

between the lines, there's usually some assumption or fallacy that needs quite a lot of semantic explanation to unpick - the Feminist Kroo (tm) usually does this and then most folk are all 'tl;dr' or 'lol you're ridiculous'; a few admit that a good point has been made, which is always nice

I've been met with hostility a number of times and I'm usually quite careful not to express a final or definite opinion on things to avoid this i.e. I'll post something without an opinion or will post something loosely stating my opinion but trying to support that YES other people have opinions too and they could be right, but still I have been (and seen others to) met with hostility. Yeah, it's only the internet and all that so, hey, it's not real life.

There are Doctor DiS threads right
and there are threads about stuff being wrong with your eyes
and I did eyes at uni and it makes me sad when everyone gets to those threads first and posts the same advice I would've posted myself
so please don't reply to the eye threads until I get there, thanks

cos in a roundabout way
this brings me to something
that I wanted to say.
There are Doctor threads, right,
and there are threads about stuff
being wrong wit' yo' eyes
so you can't see good 'nough.
Well, I did eyes at uni
and it still makes me sad
when I'm late to those threads
and the advice has been had.
So please don't reply (don't reply)
to the eye
No, please don't reply (don't reply)
to the eye

Where were they for the last two decades, while the Dockers languished at the bottom of the ladder?

On a genuine note, terrible news about Morabito. I really feel for him. Hope it's not the end of his career, but I could completely understand if he decided against pushing on it with it as you imagine after 3 knee reconstructions you might be putting up with a bit of pain for the rest of your life. However he's young and probably dedicated to the cause, so I imagine it would only be under the heaviest of medical pressure that he would give up on the dream.

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Acceptance from Theo that rogue admins such as myself are here to stay and will bring the smackdown to him if he gets too big for his (probably sturdy and expensive hiking) boots.

and someone boring me with some crap about how we'd switched to two terms instead of three so actually it was correct. Which, y'know, doesn't matter at all seeing as literally no-one in the UK has ever called an academic term a trimester. They all call them terms, and always have.

sometimes it's fewer, sometimes less. I think you use 'fewer' when referring to a plural- 'I've got fewer teabags than yesterday', and less when referring to a singular or to an abstract object or action- 'I feel less happy'/'I have less cheese'.

Can I just say that anyone who harks back to a so called DiS Social Board `Golden Age` is speaking out of their arse? It's always been as good as it is now; it's always been as shit as it is now.

Except I would make the case that this place is better now than the supposedly hallowed era of 2006-7 because there are a nowhere near as many arguments now as there used to be. Nowhere near. It's a stabler place and better for it.

Yes, there are changes we'd like to see (do them then), but what are the reasons you come here in the first place? Not in terms of what exists here already, but what you want from a social messageboard.

They've stopped ordering the great pens at work because they're too expensive. Luckily I stockpiled.
Probably a couple of weeks since I did a tea dance bringing one to Mrs M in bed, but her bedside table was cluttered. More of a solo dance though.
Apples?

As in, if someone decides to think or say something that doesn't fit in with the broad left of centre indie viewpoint, they don't get told they're a total cunt by 50 people and a troll by the other 50.

(All my mates at the time were on work placement quite a lot and never there to hang out with). I still use it to plug a gap, but whether that gap's bigger or smaller or different, I'm not really sure.

So what I want is a way to fill the stupid little holes in my life, fun threads, quizzes and activities, and a little bit of politics and comment(though not *too* much). Something to take my mind of worrying about things.

Funny GIF's, links to funny and interesting articles. For all the vitriol I throw out at some people on here, while I don't agree with a lot of what gets said by the intellectual elite, I do actually enjoy reading it. Some of the threads on here have encouraged me to read about concepts and ideas that I wouldn't have got round to otherwise.

Obviously it's nice to use the board and the site as a way of keeping in touch with people I actually know off here too. There's some proper cool people I wouldn't have ever met had it not been for the Social board.